: The death penalty still exists in Malaysian law even though the government has, on June 8, decided to abolish the mandatory death penalty, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said.
Wan Junaidi said death penalty at court’s discretion means that judges will have options to sentence the person found guilty of a crime to either death or life imprisonment or whipping. For offences causing death, death penalty at court’s discretion will be maintained; for offences not causing death, death penalty should not be imposed by the court; and if the death penalty were not imposed, the offender an be punished with whipping, he said.
Wan Junaidi said many quarters had questioned the implications of the abolition of the mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking offences under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 .
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